- Nov 07, 2020
Change Quotes
On growth, risk and embracing change.
These quotes weigh change from different sides: the risk of a compromised security key, the weight of scientific change on a global scale, and a simple wish to leave things somewhat better than they were found. For more, see our Change The World quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Better Shape
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot expect soldiers to change people's minds. That has to be done in other ways.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, there are moments that you look back at and cringe - things in the past involving violence or disrespect to women or disrespect to other people that are so far away from what I want to put out there now. But it's actually a privilege to be able to change and be making records that reflect that change.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for facial hair, I think I decided it was a good look after graduate school. I always shave it myself and trim my own beard. I change the look depending on the role. For 'Million Dollar Baby,' I had no facial hair. For 'Men in Black 3,' I had no facial hair but did wear a wig.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even two of humanity's most intimate possessions - a sense of self and a body image - are fluid, highly modifiable creations of the brain's mischievous deployment of electricity and a handful of chemicals. They both can change or be changed on less than a second's notice.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you have a blueprint down, you start talking to all the other heads of department to see if and how they can help to execute what you've imagined, and so things change and evolve. And then you have to make it work within the budget and time frame, so things change even more.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no illusions that my work can rouse the masses to create change, because literature simply doesn't have that power anymore in my country, if it does anywhere. But I do hope that it can be read by those who are in positions to create change, or that it can at least be part of that dialogue.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on 'Ilustrado.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Ilustrado,' I set out to change the way we read literature, and I think I failed spectacularly. In fact, I know I failed. In reaching further than I could, I may not have produced a life- or literature-changing book, but I did produce one I am proud of.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
- Forties
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- Nov 07, 2020